Jenny Kwan to announce she’s seeking NDP nomination in Vancouver East on Sunday

Jenny Kwan, the NDP MLA from Vancouver-Mount Pleasant … IF she wins the NDP nomination contest by defeating, among others, another NDP MLA: Mable Elmore, the MLA from Vancouver-Kensington.

That is because the NDP candidate who will be replacing retiring NDP MP Libby Davies will be running in a riding that has always elected the candidate from the NDP and its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, except in 1974 and 1993. Those two

defeats occurred, as one newspaper report put it, “when the Liberals won a national majority during periods when unpopular provincial NDP governments were in power in B.C.”

One-quarter of this riding’s population is supposed to be ethnic Chinese and that gives Kwan a distinct advantage over Elmore, an ethnic Filipino.

Mable Elmore

An email from “elect Jenny Kwan” to media on Friday titled “Jenny Kwan to host media conference, 1PM Sunday Jan 25” said: “Jenny Kwan will be joined by community leaders in the federal riding of Vancouver-East, at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre, 1607 East Hastings Street, 1 PM, Sunday January 25th.”

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